"From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists” and “the conspirators agreed to use deception to conceal from the American public their connections to terrorists,” the court papers said.

At the time, District Court Judge Jorge Solis ruled the government had provided “ample evidence” that tied CAIR to Hamas and allowed its designation as an “unindicted co-conspirator.”

In December 2001, the U.S. government froze the assets of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, affiliated with Hamas, and the Al Qaeda-linked Global Relief Foundation (GRF).

According to a statement by the Best Buy corporation, the company aims to “represent a variety of faiths and denominations. We respect that diversity, and choose to engage with our customers, employees and communities in ways that reflect their traditions and maintain good relationships for Best Buy.”

Islamist Watch.org director Marc Fink expressed his disappointment with the move, saying that he had assumed the decision was made by “out of ignorance or at a low level... sadly, I was wrong.”